skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In the age of the internet, what's the difference between local media and foreign media?

If I live in Boise, Idaho, and there is a Japanese media company reporting on Boise, Idaho new under boise-idaho-news.com, for anyone interested in Boise, Idaho... you catch my drift.

Broadcast TV is going the way of the dinosaur.

Something like an effective TikTok ban would presume a centralized firewall or ISP filtering or similar.

As a footnote: A lot of my ideas here center on cash. I personally think of free speech as an individual right and not a corporate (or governmental / organizational) one. But I don't want to bias the discussion with my own ideas here.
I thought it was interesting that the post called out the somewhat unique project structure. My experience is that copilot is super helpful on new projects, less so on maintaining/fixing existing code.
This is just the Verge regurgitating a Reuters article that has already been posted https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297126.
> Android does garbage collection and Android is slower than iOS

Thing is, not only has Android runtime witness several JIT and GC refactorings since Darwin was created, originally worse than Sony and Nokia's J2ME implementations regardless of Google's marketing otherwise, there are so many factors contributing to Android's perceived slowness from bad coded UIs, sloppy programing, cheapstakes OEMs with low performance chips, and so on.

On the other hand on iOS side, due to lack of GC and OS paging, when memory goes bad, applications just die.
Coming soon to an HFT firm near you ...
Care to provide an example? I'm genuinely curious.
Maybe the muscle movements are more natural and comfortable. Swimming with high power foot fins is probably as fast as this, but it gets very tiring real fast.
Don't worry he's way ahead of us:
https://youtu.be/2meeYcxXoVs
Seems like a pretty small (low latency) model. Would be interesting to hook up to mouse input (x and y) and see how well it predicts where I’m gonna move the mouse (maybe with and without seeing the predicted path)
There's a DIY forum for building those[1] but I think tow boogies[2] are more practical as a project. The idea is a battery box, controller, and motor on a boogie board and shifting the weight of the person being towed allows for steering.

[1] https://foil.zone/
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S9z6BP8Y42U

Since the original article is about human power, I'll also link to this foil[3] which is for pump foiling long distance. I had run across the channel well before that and thought his goal for a half hour was goofy when people were getting 90s or 2 minutes so I was quite shocked when it actually got built.

[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfJbF0xkUOY
They want less aerosols and less carbon. Both cause problems.

One problem partially mitigates the other, but nowhere near enough. To solve both problems, you have to solve both problems.
An entire generation learning how to bypass dumb restrictions sounds like a good thing, the youth need to learn how to use a computer. I support this.
In a half decade plus some people pick up other commitments that are not side projects, like a pet, a child, sports, hiking, etc.

At the end of the day, it isn’t really relevant to the employer what is done in spare time off the job when they get hired, so it’s not like I should privilege their spare time projects over people who don’t do that, particularly if people don’t want to code off the clock. There are plenty of good engineers who do not code off the clock, and there are plenty of bad engineers who do.

Also, more often than not, coding off the clock for the sake of having a portfolio is not really indicative of anything. There aren’t, for example, review processes or anything like that in a one person side project, and unless I spend significantly more hours background checking who’s to say the side project is not plagiarized? People already lie on their resumes today.
You can run nvtop on iGPUs, but with a reduced feature set I think. Just try it.
Google’s protocol is proprietary too - their encryption extension makes it inaccessible for anyone else and google will not partner or license (companies have tried).

RCS as currently implemented is iMessage but with a coat of google paint. There is no there there.
> One of his later schemes involved opening a checking account with a bank that was offering a promotional $500 to each new customer; he would withdraw the cash at the earliest opportunity, close the account, then repeat the process over and over under assumed names.

He could do this today, without using assumed names, at different banks. Sign up for a bank account that's offering a bonus, comply with the fine print to the letter, get bonus, close account. Repeat at a different bank. This can be parallelized for increased performance. It's minorly lucrative.

There was probably only one local option for this when Larson did it, forcing him to use assumed names. Today there are countless online banking options available. No assumed names required.

$500 is a solid bonus today. That was even more money when Larson was doing this.
Best hardware on the world best desktop OS. I wouldn't trade my MBP .
Especially clipping your feet to a bouyant device!
A very good alternative to ranger is lf https://github.com/gokcehan/lf

It's a lot faster in all aspects, has mostly the same features and is pretty much a standalone binary.

edit: an even more minimal alteranative is nnn https://github.com/jarun/nnn
I just noticed! I will definitely give it a try, thanks!
US revokes licences for sales of chips to Huawei
Rule of Thumb: Anything that looks fancy is not worth you time
I recently saw the tip to add "before:2023" to google search queries and it gives significantly better results. I would like to explain my mentality about "trends" and encourage others to act the same.

With SEO optimization and psychological tricks that websites and advertisers attract you to their shitty content. I have subconsciously learned to have a negative reaction to all of them.

Same for a news articles and ads.

A website is BS if it has any of the following:
- More than a paragraph of introduction
- Word "AI" in the title
- Doesn't have sentences without buzzwords
- Ads with Psychological tricks

Truly good websites have around 2 facts per 10 word sentence, and get instantly to the chase. Also: good websites give you the names of all their competitors/alternative websites before showing their own stuff, and give you further reading.

Right now the world of technology is supposedly more innovative than ever, but somehow Wikipedia (https://www.wikipedia.org/) and Search Hackernews (https://hn.algolia.com/) beat billion dollar search engines.

Articles written decades ago are still unsurpassed in terms of quality and ease of understanding, but the best modern websites can do is textbook explanations. It is time society graduates from boilerplate buzzword textbook culture.

Now the gems of the internet are slowly being buried beneath mountains of trash.

If something sounds boilerplate it isn't good enough.

Don't bother saying something that has been said before, and better.
And I will be arrogant and say that my rant here meets that criteria.
Which will make your feet float, driving your head underwater.
Apple's New "Crush" Ad
It definitely depends on the domain. In embedded programming you can often know that your n is small for your algorithms. If you are making a desktop app or web service it is very important to prepare for people using your service in unexpected ways and a super linear algorithm can result in terrible performance or downtime if not managed correctly.
Uncensored LLM vision API (for internal use cases)
The safety filter of GPT 4 vision and Claude 3 Opus is critical for user facing products, but to build internal tools it impacts a lot performance (eg. to build an image moderation LLM). We had this problem internally and we had to build our own Llama 3 8B with vision (Llava architecture). We are now releasing it as an API for other developers experiencing the same issue with too censored multimodal LLM APIs.
I'm guessing the name is meant to allude to cinnamon pig ears (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Palmier).
It’d be very interesting to see the results for this metric for the existing audio and voice codecs (like AAC, AAC-LD, mp3, opus), and how it compares to the existing metrics for them?

Couldn’t find it in their paper.
My personal understanding - for Thinkpads, it's next year. I guess Lenovo is making real-life testes with P1 here, gather feedback before addressing other families like T14/T14s
Whenever this comes up, the focus is on simply opposing the idea. I think perhaps devoting energy to solutions that can address both the concern of safety and privacy is also worth considering.

The internet is going to be a fundamental part of human life I would argue indefinitely. The need for robust information verification is not something we're going to be able to do without.

The question is, would solutions end up being effective ones or ones that "work" but create all sorts of other problems? The worse outcome in my view would be that we all end up being required to use big tech companies as gate keepers for our digital lives.

Now for my pitch :). Cryptographic certificates are a solution option that CAN bridge this gap.

App:
https://certisfy.com/

Demo:
https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

Technical Doc:
https://cipheredtrust.com/doc/#pki-overview
Reminds me of how I couldn't even innocently search for information about reproduction in plants in a country with an overly broad internet filter, because the results would have the word "sex" in them at some point. So I had to get good at coming up with indirect searches to get around the filter.
It's Microsoft-driven, not community-driven. For the past 25 years the Microsoft camp has either never understood, or hasn't cared about, that distinction.
> 'Underwater bicycle' propels swimmers forward at superhuman speed

so... like a normal bicycle then.
Ask HN: Any one still using MySQL?
Do you manage your own MySQL installation?
- If not, what managed provider do you use?
- Either way, what’s your biggest pain point?

Why not Postgres?
It wasn't the volume, but the azimuth.
For a fair comparison, what about comparing against the cheapest "power cloud server"?

I mean Hetzner has a reputation for renting bare metal servers at the cheapest price in the market. Try AX102 which has very close performance to a M3 Max (CPU only): https://www.hetzner.com/dedicated-rootserver/matrix-ax/

While the OP's solution has a lot of advantages like being able to own the device and including GPU, but at least we do have cloud servers with comparable costs available.
Wow excellent article and a lot worse than I thought. The city-journal is one of the last remaining places you can get quality journalism.
Don't worry; AT&T will still correctly bill the randomsware crooks for the phone call while still saying they can't prevent this.
Musk said that the new Tesla roadster was going to fly, and took deposits for it.
Sure. I was making a general observation about ads vs. subscriptions out on the open internet where sites generally cost money to run, and sometimes the owners attempt to make a salary from their time, or even make a profit. Lots of ways to change that need for revenue, but once you are hitting 100k+ daily visitors, it’s hard to avoid.

I run multiple small sites for free, and do a number of other activities for free that someone might get paid for. But I know that I’m doing it because I want to and can stop anytime. Revenue also creates continuity by creating a financial obligation…even while it reduces the passion element of motivation.
Yeah! Please file issues or ask questions if you need help. :-)

Hopefully it's easy enough to follow the `java` example to add your own.
As far as I can tell, adolescent exposure to porn has proved as meaningless as adolescent exposure to violent video games.

It dawned on me the other day that millennial men, being the first generation with access to seemingly unlimited amounts of porn from a young age, are not a bunch of sexually deranged rapists. In the same way we aren't a generation of murderers despite growing up on golden eye and counter strike.

You probably don't want your kids looking at porn, but I also think it's miles (kilometers?) from the point where we want a surveillance state in order to stop it.
Do I understand it wrong that it is a purely political decision if autopilot is allowed or not?

Edit:
Sry that’s wrong Mercedes [1] is coming with the first Level 3 Autopilot for the US this year.

1. https://www.caranddriver.com/news/a42672470/2024-mercedes-be...
sounds to me like a you problem.
they're not dependent in a must-have sense already, and they are already engaging in brutal anti-competitive, IP-stealing behavior constantly.

they were already playing dirty and weren't top customers for those chip makers, regardless.
Actually, I think it's a fair comparison for several reasons:

- The decision of "is it safe to take this trip or not" is tied to the trip. Once you get in a plane or get in a car, you've made the safety decision. It's not really reversable for flight, and it's only partially reversable if you're driving a car.

- The risk in air travel is largely dominated by the takeoff, landing and quality of plane production and maintenance. It's not strongly tied to distance or flight time. Once you're in the air, I speculate that there are fewer opportunities for adverse events then a car. To put it another way, flying from SF to San Diego is not 2x risker then flying from SF to LA despite it being more than 2x the distance and flight time. Compare this to a car, where you encounter many more cars in close proximity, many more obstacles (stop lights, pedestrians, turns). A 15 minute ride to get groceries likely has 10x the number of opportunities for adverse events as compared to an airplane. Car risk is denser and linear, where as flight risk seems more constant.

- Number of people on a plane doesn't really affect the safety of a trip. (saw this in some other comments)

However, I do recognize that commercial airline deaths are a better metric for general travel comparison. Though I would use the global data. We do know of two fatal crashes of the Boeing planes in the last decade so if you're cherry picking the US data then you are also introducing bias. This is especially true given my earlier point about risks associated with plane quality.
There's a few:

NOAA's GHCN: Global Historical Climatology Network, Its coverage includes data going back several centuries, with the earliest records starting around 1750.

HadCRUIT (Hadley Centre/Climatic Research Unit Temperature). Has marine (ship-borne and buoy) and terrestrial (land-based stations) sources.

NASA's GISS Surface Temperature Analysis has records from the 1880s.

As for calibration, I believe some places routinely calibrated their mercury tstats. But since that was a potential issue, we started using indirect measurements (eg: what I mentioned) to confirm certain climate trends.
Canada is turning into Totalitarian state with no freedoms or ability for privacy. As an expat I’m really sad to see how spineless my fellow Canadians are at standing up to Justin Trudeau and his fascism. I admired the truckers but the fact Trudeau used the War Measures Act or whatever it’s called now to trample their freedoms makes me sick. The fact a tribunal said they were wrong to use it is cold comfort years after the fact and no one was held accountable.

I’m anxious for Polivore but worries he will be exactly the same instead of rolling back the policies Trudeau put in place.
I’ve seen the same meme over and over again in many different youtube videos: Elon musk assuring self-driving is just around the corner, just another few months…

The investigation doesn’t interest me much. He has gotten slaps on the wrist before. Wake me up when he gets jail time.
Pairing this with some sort of foil board contraption would be interesting. Once you get up and out of the water on a foil, it's a lot less effort.
Thanks! Hope you like the extension.
Peter, thank you for introducing yourself.

If i could give you a 100 votes right now. I would.

They say every spreadsheet is worth a $M idea or more.

Godspeed!
Nitrogen is better, but the equipment is more expensive and finicky. CO2 under just enough pressure to keep the oxygen out shouldn't dissolve into the liquid too much, though.

The downside is that you then couldn't use gas pressure to push the liquid through the tap line, but you can use gravity or a beer engine instead.
In general, reciprocity works well across a broad range of international relations, (visas, tariffs, mutual defence/non-aggression/..., and otherwise).

As an idea, it's not "too dumb to believe."

Indeed, it's one of the places the US' draconian visa policies often come back to bite it. If you're travelling to any developing country with reciprocity on a US passport, you can expect to be treated horribly.
I don't think that C++'s rigorous adherence to backwards compatibility (include binary compatibility) is a bad choice. It has served the language well. It just has consequences.
Yes, but if you had for example 1 ETH in FTX when it went down, you're not getting 1 ETH back now, you're only getting the dollar value of that ETH in November 22, which was much lower than current prices (> 50%).
Yes, if you use an intermediary service. The service verifies your identity, and then it provides an attestation about your age.
Yes, you can with cryptographic certificates.

App: https://certisfy.com/

Demo: https://youtu.be/92gu4mxHmTY

Happy to discuss.
A lot of tools can empower it. Apollo, Instantly, Zoominfo.
They have a billion-dollar capitalization and are not prohibited.
hi. why would we need this tool?
Really, I was focused on the Russia-Ukraine conflict; Russia sends scores of drones over the border every night, aimed at civilian infrastructure, including power generation and distribution, medical facilities, ports and warehouses, as well as civilian housing.

Just installing point defence for all the power generation would be expensive. Point-defence for e.g. Odessa or Kharkiv is impossible, because they are cities, not "points".
useful, thank you!
Same gen but with 2 more cores + Hyperthreading
Centralization like this is an unacceptable single point-of-failure, and a dangerous risk for a single point-of-capture.

The solution is technology coming loaded with the tools and features that make it easy for parents to monitor and regulate what their children see - and not by fear mongering by a government-state looking to have their fingers and eyes on everyone, integrated fully into our information channels.

Reminder that Trudeau has said on video that he admires China's - the CCP's dictatorship. Take that for what you will.
Calling them mistakes is actively ignoring that there are design constraints and decisions that shape what the language looks and acts like. And that's without getting into "there are only so many hours in a day, a limited amount of people, so not everything is getting done at the same speed, if at all".

It's the first time I hear your second point about intrinsics, for example, and it seems like something that could be done relatively straightforwardly, but introducing "inconsistency" for the benefit of skipping a single unsafe block sounds like the kind of RFC thread I wouldn't want to be a part of.
i love the idea of bringing "permissionless collaboration" to standard SaaS apps. but the question i kept on asking myself while reading this was...what will get developers to start building with lix vs. what they know/trust?

perhaps the catalyst here is AI. as you write, if you want AI agents to interact with your systems, "you need a controllable and auditable mechanism for observing an agent's changes and accepting or rejecting them."

so if you build with lix, your app is "agent-ready." that's pretty cool.
That's a fair point. My (untested) assumption would be that it would be cumbersome and weird, and I wouldn't be 'swimming'.

If I were to guess at their motivations, it might be 'what could make me go faster in the water and also be enjoyable'? I'd try it out of curiosity, sure, but I'm pretty sure it wouldn't last beyond the novelty for me.
Yes, you're right and struct is _the_ interesting part about mojo and is enough to write interesting things in it.

Floodgates will open though once class is also supported.
Imagine Ollama but running in the browser, as an extension.
Isn't that the definition of affirmative action? Which most companies claim to do (e.g Google [1]).

Admittedly Google also claims not to discriminate on the basis of protected characteristics, which is somewhat contradictory to the definition of affirmative action as positive discrimination [2].

[1] https://www.google.com/about/careers/applications/eeo/
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Affirmative_action
What are they if they're not "labor"? Certainly a police officer considers their upcoming shift as "work". Certainly the police could not function without on-duty officers on patrol and at the precinct?

I hate to be so blunt on this site, but what is the flippin point of these sort of definitional and semantic arguments? What are you trying to gain, other than muddying the waters of conversations. I legitimately don't see how any position, yours or otherwise, benefits from this rhetorical approach.
There are very few options outside of coding interviews, and getting fewer by the day.

It's almost like everyone big and small is standardizing on this model. Feels like one of those mandatory courses you took in college: the teacher and all the students knew it was bullshit yet you needed to perform the parroting at some adequate level to pass.

I have 21 years of varied experience in software engineering, yet a recent "technical" phone interview was a kid asking me to "balance a B-tree"; I can tell his expectation was for me to start reciting some CS algorithm BS, probably that's what everyone else is doing. I politely declined and that was the end of the interviewing process with that company.
Super == above, over, beyond.

If it augments the human's capabilities, it's definitely super!
I honestly feel like you're responding to an entirely different person, despite the fact that you quoted my post.

Rails can scale horizontally just fine for a huge, huge majority of business cases. If you have a business critical use case that truly needs however many thousands of things done in a tight loop inside a single process...obviously Rails is not the tool you should be using.

I did not say "the ability to optimize something is a trivial niceity". I said "concurrency often gets in the way more than it helps unless you're trying to optimize something". I'm not sure if you're purposefully misrepresenting my words, but it does feel like you are especially given the "so you never make HTTP requests" comment you started this thread with.
This is about defrauding people who bought a tesla, not investors.

> In 2020, Musk told a crowd in Shanghai that he remains “confident” that Tesla will achieve “basic functionality for level five autonomy this year,” referring to the SAE’s rankings of autonomy. Tesla’s technology, in 2024, is still at level 2.

This reminds me alot of the Thernos case where she tried to make the case not about fraud but about an overly optimistic CEO promising something and being wrong about that. here Musk has clearly said that full self driving would be available many years ago.

So I guess we're trying to figure out how much lying is ok by a CEO before it becomes fraud to the buyer.
clip-ons lock your feet to the device. If you find yourself needing to suddenly swim away from the device for any reason, you better hope that you can easily clip out. On a bicycle, you can do this fairly easily because you're on ground with gravity. In water, it could be much more challenging to clip out.
Sure let’s start with age verification and get the infra and social expectation in place for blacklists on *any* parameter they choose (for the sake of “safety”, of course).